“…Norcross et al (1996) reported that among adult patients, those who were married were more likely than unmarried patients to be influenced to seek health care by a member of the opposite sex; with more male patients following this pattern than female patients. Another study showed that in addition to citing mothers as top sources of health care information (Ackard & Neumark-Sztainer, 2001;Aten, Siegel, & Roghmann, 1996), adolescents cited romantic partners and friends as important sources of health information about sex (Marcell & Halpern-Felsher, 2007). A third study showed that mother's influence on her adolescent's tendency to seek medical care persisted as a main effect after controlling for sex, age, race, birth order, socioeconomic status, and intellectual ability (Fox, 1991).…”